OBJECTIVES We illustrate the important and troubling issue of persistent misinformation and false claims in the medical literature using a frequently cited case inaccurately believed by many to be the first case of calciphylaxis. METHODS We identified a recurring error in the medical literature in the form of numerous citations of a study from the 1890s of a 6-month-old child with idiopathic ...

This paper reports on a study that examined citation practice in a set of scholarly papers. After evaluating 2162 bibliographic references it was found that 48.1% (1041) of all citations used in the papers referred to a Web-located resource. A significant number of references to URLs were found to be missing (45.8%) and an evaluation of these Weblocated citations allowed the average half-life (...

One method for assessing quality of research outputs across different technical disciplines is comparing citations received by the research output documents. However, cross-discipline citation comparison studies require discipline normalization, in order to eliminate discipline differences in cultural citation practices and discipline differences in number of active researchers available to cit...

Citations are used for research evaluation, and it is therefore important to know which factors influence or associate with citation impact of articles. Several have been studied in the literature. In this study we propose a new factor, topic growth, that no previous has empirically. The growth rate topics may future counts because high means there more publications citing topic. We construct u...

The main objective of our ongoing research work is understanding the group dynamics of the scientific creative process, including the flow of research ideas, the creation of new ideas, and their impact on future ideas in collaborative communities. The principal means for pursuing this objective is by analyzing the main outputs of research work, such as scientific publications and their citation...

It is now generally accepted that academic writing is a social activity by which the authors negotiate with their audience to gain community acceptance for their findings. One of the ways to achieve such an acceptance is by establishing intertextual links to prior research using citation. Despite a vast research on the topic and suggestion of typologies for the form and function of citation in ...